Trump prevents ‘boring’ cabinet meeting so he doesn’t fall asleep, avoids Minnesota talk, Kristi Noem

WASHINGTON — President Trump wanted to make cabinet meetings short again.

The president ensured that his first 2026 gathering of his secretaries on Thursday didn’t devolve into a three-hour, “boring” confab like last time, during which he was seen closing his eyes and faced accusations of dozing off.

“We’re not going to go through the whole table because the last time we had a press conference, it lasted for three hours, and some people said ‘he closed his eyes,'” Trump declared early on during the meeting, deciding to select only a few department and agency heads to speak.

“Look, it got pretty boring,” the president said bluntly to an explosion of laughter. “I just closed them because I wanted to get the hell out of here. I didn’t sleep.”

Trump also opted to forgo questions from the press — a very rare move by the outspoken president.

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